"In his guise as a college
professor, Henry Jones Junior is
an average Joe, who can also rise
to the occasion in the guise
of "Indiana", a superhero image he
has concocted for himself.
Producer Frank Marshall
said, "Indy [is] a fallible
character. He makes mistakes and
gets hurt. That's the other thing
people like: He's a real
character, not a character with
superpowers." Spielberg said
there "was the willingness to
allow our leading man to get hurt
and to express his pain and to get
his mad out and to take pratfalls
and sometimes be the butt of his
own jokes. I mean, Indiana Jones
is not a perfect hero, and his
imperfections, I think, make the
audience feel that, with a little
more exercise and a little more
courage, they could be just like
him." "